NAME |
Somdutt Prasad
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CONTACT DETAILS: |
HOME: |
23 Den Bank Drive
Crosspool
Sheffield S10 5PE
Phone 0114 2309416
Mobile 0799 0596268
somprasad@bigfoot.com
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WORK: |
Consultant Ophthalmologist
Wirral Hospitals NHS Trust
Upton, Wirral CH49 5PE
UK
Phone 0151 6785111 |
QUALIFICATIONS |
MB BS 1988,
The Medical College, Calcutta, India.
University of Calcutta, India
MS (Ophthalmology) 1993,
The Medical College, Calcutta, India.
University of Calcutta, India
FRCS Ed (Ophthalmology) 1994,
The Royal College of Surgeons Of Edinburgh
Scotland, UK |
PRESENT APPOINTMENTS |
Consultant Ophthalmologist, Wirral Hospitals NHS Trust
Module Co-ordinator – Diploma in Medical Informatics Course
Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh |
PAST APPOINTMENTS |
June 1999 to February 2001
Lecturer
University of Sheffield
June 1998 to May 1999
Retinal Fellow
Arrowe Park Hospital, Wirral, Merseyside
February 1997 to May 1998
Fellow in diabetic eye disease
Arrowe Park Hospital, Wirral, Merseyside
April 1996 to January 1997
Registrar in Ophthalmology
Oxford Eye Hospital, Oxford
April 1995 to March 1996
Registrar in Ophthalmology
Princess Margaret Hospital, Swindon
May 1994 to March 1995
Senior House Officer in Ophthalmology Royal Eye Infirmary
Dorset County Hospital, Dorchester
June 1993 to April 1994
Senior House Officer in Ophthalmology
Peterborough District Hospital
January 1991 to February 1993
Resident in Ophthalmology
Regional Institute of Ophthalmology
Medical College Hospitals, Calcutta, India
August 1989 to December 1990
Resident House Surgeon in Ophthalmology
Regional Institute of Ophthalmology
Medical College Hospitals, Calcutta, India
August 1988 to July 1989
Pre-registration House Officer (Rotating)
Medical College Hospitals, Calcutta, India
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SPECIAL INTERESTS |
Vitreoretinal surgery
Catarcts
Diabetic Eye Disease |
AWARDS & GRANTS |
Funding from the NHS Executive North West R&D Directorate
"Cost-effectiveness of screening for diabetic retinopathy"
Association of Eye Research – 2nd prize
Chauvin prize for best presentation by a young Ophthalmologist
JERMOV ’97, Montpellier, France.
Grant from the Royal College of General Practitioners
to support my research on diabetic retinopathy, 1997. |
RESEARCH: |
PUBLICATIONS |
Eight original research papers in peer reviewed journals,
nine other papers, eighteen short communications,
five accepted manuscripts awaiting publication
and one chapter in a textbook. |
PRESENTATIONS |
Eighteen oral research presentations, six posters, four videos
and thirteen invited lectures at national and international meetings. |
THESIS |
“A study of the prevalence and severity of diabetic retinopathy in the
Wirral by a community optometry based three-tier surveillance system”
submitted for the degree of MD of the University of Liverpool, 1998-2000.
"A comparative study of retrobulbar and periocular anaesthesia
for ocular surgery" Accepted by the University of Calcutta
for the degree of MS in Ophthalmology, 1992.
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OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES |
I have served as a reviewer for ‘Eye’ The Journal of The Royal College of
Ophthalmologists, The British Medical Association medical books competition,
The British Journal of Orthoptics,The Journal of Postgraduate Medicine
and The NHS North-West R&D Support Unit. |
OTHER INTERESTS |
Photography - my photographs have been exhibited as part of an exhibition
at The Festival of India in the (former) Soviet Union
Cars - fast ones!
Travelling
Indian cooking – not ‘Balti’, this is the real thing!
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